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		<title>National Standards Nonsense</title>
		<link>http://educationnext.org/national-standards-nonsense/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:48:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay P. Greene</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Checker Finn]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The national standards train-wreck is pulling into the station, again.  This time it is a completely voluntary set of national standards in the same way that complying with a 21-year-old drinking age is completely voluntary for states to receive federal highway money.  States had to commit to a rushed and largely secretive national standard setting process as part of the Race to the Top application.]]></description>
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		<title>Is Arne Duncan’s new civil rights crusade unconstitutional?</title>
		<link>http://educationnext.org/is-arne-duncans-new-civil-rights-crusade-unconstitutional/</link>
		<comments>http://educationnext.org/is-arne-duncans-new-civil-rights-crusade-unconstitutional/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:24:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua Dunn</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Complex Justice]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Department of Health Education and Welfare]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Parents Involved v. Seattle School District No. 1]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[racial disparities]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Monday, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan announced  that his department will expand its efforts in civil rights enforcement.  Like everything this sounds fantastic in the abstract.  Who after all publicly declares that they oppose protecting civil rights? The details, though, paint a more troublesome picture.]]></description>
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		<title>We Need Fewer Teachers, Not More</title>
		<link>http://educationnext.org/we-need-fewer-teachers-not-more/</link>
		<comments>http://educationnext.org/we-need-fewer-teachers-not-more/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:32:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul E. Peterson</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Teachers and Teaching]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elizabeth Green]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Saving Schools]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Sunday's NYT, Elizabeth Green explains beautifully the challenges of classroom teaching. She says we will need millions of additional teachers to cover baby boom retirements, and wonders how we can find enough good ones. The answer is that we can't.]]></description>
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		<title>New Book Review: Hanushek Reviews Ouchi on Total Student Load</title>
		<link>http://educationnext.org/new-book-review-hanushek-reviews-ouchi-on-total-student-load/</link>
		<comments>http://educationnext.org/new-book-review-hanushek-reviews-ouchi-on-total-student-load/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:39:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Education Next</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bill Ouchi]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bill Ouchi is a management professor who studies school districts. His latest book provides an in-depth look at six school districts with high-profile leaders (including Rod Paige, Arne Duncan, Joel Klein, and Arlene Ackerman) who are all pursuing decentralization of decisionmaking and funding, a school reform strategy lauded by Ouchi in a previous book.
These six [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book Alert: The Death and Life of the Great American School System</title>
		<link>http://educationnext.org/book-alert-the-death-and-life-of-the-great-american-school-system/</link>
		<comments>http://educationnext.org/book-alert-the-death-and-life-of-the-great-american-school-system/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 20:27:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chester E. Finn, Jr.</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alerts]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Diane Ravitch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Death and Life of the Great American School System]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[U.S. K–12 education]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Diane Ravitch's important new book, The Death and Life of the Great American School System, will surely stir controversy, exactly as she intends. Simply stated, she believes it should recapture the strengths of the traditional public school system, incorporate a vigorous common curriculum and renounce many of the theories, practices, policies and programs that have constituted America's major education-reform emphases in recent years.]]></description>
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		<title>Behind the Headline: Congress shouldn&#8217;t betray D.C. scholarship program</title>
		<link>http://educationnext.org/behind-the-headline-congress-shouldnt-betray-d-c-scholarship-program/</link>
		<comments>http://educationnext.org/behind-the-headline-congress-shouldnt-betray-d-c-scholarship-program/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 20:07:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Education Next</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Top of the News
 Congress shouldn&#8217;t betray D.C. scholarship program
03/08/10 &#124; The Washington Post
Behind the Headline
 How Vouchers Came to D.C.
Fall 2004 &#124;  Education Next
A bipartisan coalition led by Sen. Joe Lieberman is calling on the Senate to restore the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program. An article by Spencer Hsu that appeared in Ed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Podcast: The New Normal for Federal Education Spending</title>
		<link>http://educationnext.org/new-podcast-the-new-normal-for-federal-education-spending/</link>
		<comments>http://educationnext.org/new-podcast-the-new-normal-for-federal-education-spending/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 17:24:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Education Next</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Education Next’s Paul Peterson and Chester E. Finn, Jr. talk about whether the federal share of education spending is  likely to remain at 15 percent and whether the $1 billion bonus for  reauthorizing ESEA this year is likely to be awarded.
Click here to get the podcast.
]]></description>
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		<title>Racing to the Jargon: Finalist&#8217;s Edition</title>
		<link>http://educationnext.org/racing-to-the-jargon-finalists-edition/</link>
		<comments>http://educationnext.org/racing-to-the-jargon-finalists-edition/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 15:31:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frederick Hess</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whereas greenfield-style measures tend to be cut-and-dry--states either did or did not enact certain legislation--the prescriptive bulk of RTT is about promising to do things. Since this kind of compliance is about plans and intentions rather than actions, it's harder to demonstrate. The usual result: proving commitment by piling up consultant-provided buzzwords and jargon. And the RTT apps are no exception.]]></description>
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		<title>Evaluating the RTT Finalists</title>
		<link>http://educationnext.org/evaluating-the-rtt-finalists/</link>
		<comments>http://educationnext.org/evaluating-the-rtt-finalists/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 22:51:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator> </dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Education Department]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Thomas W. Carroll]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Race to the Top finalists do not have an equal chance of actually winning a Round One grant in the $4 billion competition. Like a presidential candidate who interviews many more vice presidential candidates than actually are under serious consideration, I suspect the Education Department was intentionally over-inclusive.]]></description>
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		<title>The Gates Conspiracy</title>
		<link>http://educationnext.org/the-gates-conspiracy/</link>
		<comments>http://educationnext.org/the-gates-conspiracy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 22:47:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Petrilli</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A perceptive reader pointed this out to me. The Bill &#38; Melinda Gates Foundation originally provided 15 states with $250,000 planning grants to help them prepare their Race to the Top applications. After a firestorm of controversy, Gates made similar grants available to the other states. But note this:
Original Gates States:
Arkansas, Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Go New York</title>
		<link>http://educationnext.org/go-new-york/</link>
		<comments>http://educationnext.org/go-new-york/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 19:43:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frederick Hess</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Arne Duncan]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Secretary Duncan has repeatedly told us to watch what he does, not what he says. So, I'm watching, but so far I'm not impressed.]]></description>
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		<title>Were RTT Applications Graded on a Curve?</title>
		<link>http://educationnext.org/were-rtt-applications-graded-on-a-curve/</link>
		<comments>http://educationnext.org/were-rtt-applications-graded-on-a-curve/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 19:38:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy Smarick</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Arne Duncan]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’m very disappointed with the Department’s decision to name 16 states RTT finalists.  A number of these states have glaring deficiencies that would make them unable to get over a medium bar much less the “very, very high bar” that Secretary Duncan said he would set.]]></description>
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		<title>Sweet Sixteen?</title>
		<link>http://educationnext.org/sweet-sixteen/</link>
		<comments>http://educationnext.org/sweet-sixteen/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 16:58:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Petrilli</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The news  that 15 states plus the District of Columbia qualified as finalists in the first round of the “Race to the Top” is sure to anger many reformers, and for good reason.]]></description>
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		<title>A Virtual Race to the Top</title>
		<link>http://educationnext.org/a-virtual-race-to-the-top/</link>
		<comments>http://educationnext.org/a-virtual-race-to-the-top/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 16:53:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul E. Peterson</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[State and Federal]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now that the first round of Race to the Top awards have been announced, we can appreciate the impact that this new federal initiative is having on stimulating new thinking at state and local levels.  Promising money to states if they come up with sensible ideas seems to work more effectively than punishing schools and districts for low performance. But some of the truly bold new ideas in education today are escaping the attention of RttT policymakers.]]></description>
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		<title>A Pernicious Parlor Game</title>
		<link>http://educationnext.org/a-pernicious-parlor-game/</link>
		<comments>http://educationnext.org/a-pernicious-parlor-game/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 15:06:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frederick Hess</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, the announcement of the round one Race to the Top finalists is upon us.  In the run-up, a pernicious parlor game in edu-policy circles has been “name the RTT finalists.”  Thankfully, it’s about to come to a close.  Unfortunately, it’ll be followed by “name the RTT winners.”]]></description>
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		<title>Coming Soon: Ed Next Editors and Others Discuss RTTT Finalists</title>
		<link>http://educationnext.org/coming-soon-ed-next-editors-and-others-discuss-rttt-finalists/</link>
		<comments>http://educationnext.org/coming-soon-ed-next-editors-and-others-discuss-rttt-finalists/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 01:55:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Education Next</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Several Ed Next editors (including Rick Hess and Mike Petrilli) and some outside experts (Andy Smarick and Tom Carroll) will be weighing in on the Race to the Top finalists right here on the Ed Next blog not long after the finalists are announced.
]]></description>
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		<title>The Perils of Universalism</title>
		<link>http://educationnext.org/the-perils-of-universalism/</link>
		<comments>http://educationnext.org/the-perils-of-universalism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 14:44:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chester E. Finn, Jr.</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Elizabeth Cascio]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[public-sector programs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[universal free goods]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[What Happened When Kindergarten Went Universal?]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There are regulatory domains where government is wise to make its rules universal. There are also some government programs, services and benefits that benefit from extending them to everyone or almost everyone, at least on a voluntary basis. For the most part, however, turning public-sector programs into universal free goods produces unintended and often undesirable results, while failing to solve the most urgent core problem.]]></description>
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		<title>Behind the Headline &#8211; Survey: Supportive leadership helps retain top teachers</title>
		<link>http://educationnext.org/behind-the-headline-survey-supportive-leadership-helps-retain-top-teachers/</link>
		<comments>http://educationnext.org/behind-the-headline-survey-supportive-leadership-helps-retain-top-teachers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 14:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Education Next</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Top of the News
Survey: Supportive leadership helps retain top teachers
03/03/10 &#124; The Washington Post
Behind the Headline
 The Revolving Door
Winter 2004 &#124;  Education Next
A Gates-funded survey of 40,000 teachers finds that supportive leadership is more important to them than higher salaries (and much more important to them than performance pay). A study published by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Diane Ravitch on “the Nature of Markets”</title>
		<link>http://educationnext.org/diane-ravitch-on-the-nature-of-markets/</link>
		<comments>http://educationnext.org/diane-ravitch-on-the-nature-of-markets/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 16:49:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul E. Peterson</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ignoring basic economic principles, Ravitch asks us to keep intact our hopelessly disabled school system, now stagnant for half a century or more. She thinks she can get American schools to adopt her favored curricular reforms—even though they have refused to do so despite her multi-decade advocacy.]]></description>
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		<title>Are There Really No Bad Schools in Raleigh-Wake County?</title>
		<link>http://educationnext.org/are-there-really-no-bad-schools-in-raleigh-wake-county/</link>
		<comments>http://educationnext.org/are-there-really-no-bad-schools-in-raleigh-wake-county/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 16:33:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marci Kanstoroom</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Gerald Grant]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hope and Despair in the American City: Why There are No Bad Schools in Raleigh]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nathan Glazer]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The school board in Wake County, N.C. will vote today on a proposal to do away with the policy of assigning students to schools to achieve socioeconomic diversity. Wake County parents unhappy with the school assignment policy elected a school board last fall with a majority of members who pledged to limit long bus rides for students and promote neighborhood schools. A 2009 book by Gerald Grant tells the story of how Raleigh and Wake County ended up with integrated schools in the first place.]]></description>
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		<title>Behind the Headline: Chicago Schools CEO Projects $1 Billion Deficit</title>
		<link>http://educationnext.org/behind-the-headline-chicago-schools-ceo-projects-1-billion-deficit/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 19:15:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Education Next</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Top of the News
Chicago Schools CEO Projects $1 Billion Deficit
02/25/10 &#124; WBBM780
Behind the Headline
 Mounting Debt
Winter 2004 &#124;  Education Next
Chicago considers ways to close a $1 billion gap in its budget. An article by Jon Fullerton that appeared in the Winter 2004 issue of Ed Next explained why school districts find it so [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book Alert: Emerging Evidence on Vouchers and Faith-Based Providers in Education</title>
		<link>http://educationnext.org/book-alert-emerging-evidence-on-vouchers-and-faith-based-providers-in-education/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 17:11:54 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Alerts]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Felipe Barrera-Osorio]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Harry Anthony Patrinos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PPPs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[public-private partnerships]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Quentin Wodon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Role and Impact of Public-Private Partnerships in Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[World Bank]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In recent decades, public-private partnerships (PPPs) and private providers have emerged as major forces in education in the less-developed and developing worlds, often supplying the lion’s share of education services where scarce resources have crippled state-run schooling. A new book from the World Bank, edited by Felipe Barrera-Osorio, Harry Anthony Patrinos, and Quentin Wodon, puts this growing phenomenon under the microscope.]]></description>
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		<title>Lighting Their Fires With Soggy Tinder</title>
		<link>http://educationnext.org/lighting-their-fires-with-soggy-tinder/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 14:58:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Education Next</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Liam Julian takes a contrarian look at Rafe Esquith’s new book, Lighting Their Fires, in an article just published on the Ed Next website, “Dedicated, Decorated, and Disappointing.” 
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		<title>Newspapers May Be In Decline, But Not Videos or Podcasts</title>
		<link>http://educationnext.org/newspapers-may-be-in-decline-but-not-videos-or-podcasts/</link>
		<comments>http://educationnext.org/newspapers-may-be-in-decline-but-not-videos-or-podcasts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 18:16:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Education Next</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Brookings Institution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chester Finn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[decline of newspapers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[education coverage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Education Writers Association]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fordham Institute]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Linda Perlstein]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paul Peterson]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Mike Petrilli talks with Linda Perlstein of the Education Writers Association about what the decline of newspapers means for education coverage in a new video on our website.
And in this week’s podcast, Paul Peterson and Chester Finn talk about two new reports. The first report, released by the Fordham Institute last week, identifies 2800 public [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Will the Common Core Standards Prove Safe and Effective?</title>
		<link>http://educationnext.org/will-the-common-core-standards-prove-safe-and-effective/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 03:17:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chester E. Finn, Jr.</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Editorial]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Standards, Testing, and Accountability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[State and Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Common Core standards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Council of Chief State School Officers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[National Governors Association]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[national standards]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Even though they still haven’t seen the light of day in draft form, much less been joined by any assessments, the evolving “common core” standards project of the National Governors Association (NGA) and Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) is already being laden with heavier and heavier burdens. This is enormously risky and, frankly, hubristic, since nobody yet has any idea whether these standards will be solid, whether the tests supposed to be aligned with them will be up to the challenge, or whether the “passing scores” on those tests will be high or low, much less how this entire apparatus will be sustained over the long haul.]]></description>
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